Eubank Jr joins the club
by Ron Jackson 26 November 2011, 20:33
An increasing number of yesterday’s boxing heroes now have sons following in their footsteps.
The latest member of this club is Chris Eubank’s son, also Chris. Junior won his first professional fight when stopped Lithuanian Kirilis Psonko in the fourth round in Manchester recently.
His dad, for many years one of the leading and most popular British boxers, held the WBO middleweight and super-middleweight titles.
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr has more than earned his stripes as Son of The Legend.
Chavez retained his WBC middleweight title when he stopped Peter Manfredo Jr in the fifth round of their fight in Houston, Texas, recently.
Now he is likely to take on England’s Darren Barker in his next title defence in Mexico in March next year.
CHISORA CHASES CHAMPIONSHIP
Meanwhile a number of leading boxers are getting ready to fight once more before the end of the year.
One of them is Dereck Chisora, a former British heavyweight champion. He is scheduled to meet Robert Helenius for the vacant European heavyweight title in Helsinki on December 3.
The fight will be on the undercard of the tournament in which Alexander Povetkin defends his WBA title against Cedric Boswell.
The British featherweight title bout between Lee Selby and John Simpson has been rescheduled to December 14. They will meet at Bethnal Green’s York Hall in London.
George Groves is set to defend his British and Commonwealth super-middleweight titles against an opponent to be announced at the London ExCel Arena.
European super-middleweight champion James DeGale will defend his title on the same card.
MEDIA MADE MARQUEZ THE WINNER
It has been reported that most media representatives who were at ringside when Manny Pacquiao fought Juan Manuel Marquez recently scored the fight in favour or Marques.
The judges made Pacquiao the winner but the reporters disagreed. Among them was well-known author Thomas Hauser who scored it 116-113 for Marquez.
When Suriyan Sor Rungvisai retained his WBC flyweight belt against Nobuo Nashiro of Japan in Bangkok recently there were four title fights on the cards, followed by five Muay Thai championship bouts.
The London Ex-Boxers Association celebrated its 40th anniversary recently. At the first meeting, held at the Tollington Arms, Hornsey Road in London, there was 15 members. Today they have nearly 650 members.